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Adobe Analytics Integration With Salesforce

Making the Most of Your Data: Integrating Adobe Analytics with Salesforce

By Narender Singh
Jun 11, 2024 | 5 Minutes | |

Imagine this: your marketing team knows how visitors are engaging with your website, and your sales team knows everything about those same customers once they become leads. But what if you could bring both worlds together?

That’s exactly what happens when you integrate Adobe Analytics with Salesforce. It is not just a tech upgrade it is a game-changer for how you understand your customers, personalize their experiences, and ultimately drive growth.

Why Integrate Adobe Analytics with Salesforce?

Both platforms are powerful on their own. Adobe Analytics gives you deep insights into how users interact with your website, mobile app, and other digital channels. Salesforce, on the other hand, is your central hub for managing customer relationships from leads to deals and beyond.

But when these two systems operate in silos, you are only seeing half the picture.

Here’s what integration unlocks:

  • A complete customer journey: You can connect anonymous web behavior to known leads and customers once they convert or sign up.
  • Smarter segmentation: Build highly targeted audiences in Adobe based on CRM attributes (like industry, purchase history, or sales stage).
  • Better personalization: Create experiences that match where someone is in the funnel not just what page they viewed.
  • Closed-loop reporting: Measure how specific digital campaigns and content contribute to real revenue outcomes in Salesforce.

In short, you stop guessing and start knowing what’s really working.

 

How Does It Work?

There are a few different ways to bring Adobe Analytics and Salesforce together, depending on your setup and goals. Some of the common methods include:

1. CRM Data Ingestion

You can bring Salesforce data (like customer attributes or sales stages) into Adobe Analytics as classification data or custom variables. This allows you to break down web traffic by things like customer type, region, or sales funnel stage.

2. Customer Match and Identity Stitching

With Adobe Experience Cloud and Salesforce CRM ID, you can stitch together web analytics data and CRM profiles, helping you track users from anonymous browsing to logged-in behavior and eventual sales.

3. Audience Sharing

Using Adobe Audience Manager or Real-Time CDP, you can create segments in Adobe based on both web behavior and Salesforce attributes and then activate those audiences across channels like email, ads, or personalization engines.

4. Reporting and Visualization

Combine Adobe Analytics and Salesforce data in tools like Adobe Customer Journey Analytics or BI platforms. This lets you build unified dashboards showing how marketing performance ties directly to sales outcomes.

 

Real-World Example

Let’s say a user visits your product page multiple times but doesn’t sign up. Later, they fill out a lead form, and your sales team starts nurturing them in Salesforce. With integration, your marketing team can see the full picture from the first ad click, through website engagement, all the way to the sales pipeline.

This enables you to:

  • Retarget more effectively
  • Prioritize high-intent leads
  • Personalize follow-ups based on actual behavior
  • Report on the ROI of each marketing touchpoint

 

Why It Matters Now More Than Ever

In a world where personalization is expected and budgets are under scrutiny, companies need to do more with the data they already have. Integrating Adobe Analytics with Salesforce helps eliminate blind spots and brings sales and marketing teams closer together with shared insights and shared goals.

 

Final Thoughts

At DWAO, we’ve helped brands bring these platforms together seamlessly. Whether you are just exploring the integration or ready to go deep with advanced use cases, we can help you bridge the gap between insights and action.

If you are looking to connect Adobe Analytics with Salesforce and unlock the full value of your customer data let’s talk.

 

Authors

Narender Singh

Head of Marketing - Earned Media
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